San Francisco Opera makes occasional excursions into the operatic big-time, such just now was Giordano’s blockbuster Andrea ChÈnier, last seen at the War Memorial 23 years ago (1992) and even then after a hiatus of 17 years (1975).
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Don Carlo in San Francisco
Not merely Don Carlo, but the five-act Don Carlo in the 1886 Modena version! The welcomed esotericism of San Francisco Opera’s extraordinary spring season.
Jen?fa in San Francisco
The early summer†San Francisco†Opera season has†the feel of a classy†festival. There is an introduction†of†Spanish director Calixto Bieito to American audiences, a five-act Don Carlo and two awaited,†inevitable role debuts, Karita Mattila as Kostelni?ka and Malin Bystrom as Janacek’s Jen?fa.
Carmen in San Francisco
Calixto Bieito is always news, Carmen with a good cast is always news. So here is the news.
Svadba in San Francisco
The brand new SF Opera Lab opened last month with artist William Kentridge’s staged Schubert Winterreise. Its second production just now, Svadba-Wedding — an a cappella opera for six female voices — unabashedly exposes the space in a different, non-theatrical configuration.
Fall of the House of Usher in San Francisco
It was a single title but a double bill and there was far more happening than Gordon Getty and Claude Debussy. Starting with Edgar Allen Poe.
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in San Francisco
Falstaff and Die Meistersinger are among the pinnacles if not the pinnacles of nineteenth century opera. Both operas are atypical of the composer and both operas are based on a Shakespeare play.
The Magic Flute in San Francisco
How did it go? Reactions of my neighbors varied. Some left at the intermission, others remarked that they thought the singing was good.
Lucia di Lammermoor in San Francisco
First it was Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva who cancelled in Zurich (no longer in her voice), then it was . . .